Lifetime Subscription

[Starlord]

The question becomes will they do it?

Standard option - $15/m

Month 1) $30 2) $60 3) $90 4) $120 5) $150 6) $180 7) $210 8) $240 9) $270 10) $300 ... ... ... 20) $600

Lifetime= $300 bucks period
1 Year= Say.. 100 ( save 20 bucks a Year)

100*10/mo= $1000 per person life time

$300 per person Lifetime

300 *500,000 Players ( just saying if everyone does it) $150,000,000 10/yr

1000* 500,000 players ( same as above in Parenthesis and that's if all 500,000 were legacy lolz, so this number will be higher) $ 500,000,000 10/yr

I don;t care if they do a Lifetime Option, because it be cheaper for everyone, but in a business perspective 500 mil> 150 mil.

That of course there's a " Terms and Conditions to the Lifetime Sub" to where you have to play x amount of days to continue this sub, then the numbers could vary with the Lifetime sub.

I highly doubt there will be 500k like in FFXI did in it's peak times, but you never know, besides 150,000,000 lifetime is still good ( if they retain 500k subs for that long or even hit 500k :P)

It's not really a gamble. The customer will only see savings if they stick around... if they don't they may have just paid MORE.

It's as close to a win-win as there ever will be when it comes to P2P MMOs

I do agree with this, If they do they do, if they don't they don't. It really doesn't matter to me as long as the game is awesome 10 bucks a month is still worth the awesomeness!

[Kallivis]

The question becomes will they do it?



Lifetime= $300 bucks period
1 Year= Say.. 100 ( save 20 bucks a Year)

100*10/mo= $1000 per person life time

$300 per person Lifetime

300 *500,000 Players ( just saying if everyone does it) $150,000,000 10/yr

1000* 500,000 players ( same as above in Parenthesis and that's if all 500,000 were legacy lolz, so this number will be higher) $ 500,000,000 10/yr

I don;t care if they do a Lifetime Option, because it be cheaper for everyone, but in a business perspective 500 mil> 150 mil.

That of course there's a " Terms and Conditions to the Lifetime Sub" to where you have to play x amount of days to continue this sub, then the numbers could vary with the Lifetime sub.

I highly doubt there will be 500k like in FFXI did in it's peak times, but you never know, besides 150,000,000 lifetime is still good ( if they retain 500k subs for that long or even hit 500k :P)

If you're going to use math in retaliation to my math, at least use realistic figures. No not every single person is going to do it. If you work in accounting or marketing or any executive branch for this sort of thing, you don't expect "everyone does it" and that's the problem with what you guys are saying. You are making poor assumptions. You have to take in data from what is happening and what has happened in the past. There are many variables to take into consideration and you guys are taking in one or two of them from the most unlikely of scenarios.

If every single player purchased a lifetime sub and every single player played for 10 years. Yeah, that would be bad.

This is not ever going to happen.

So you take into consideration all figures such as how long does the average player play for, how long will they stick around, how will players who do not purchase the lifetime sub option balance out, how much data will be expended in this amount of time, etc.

You forget some other basic things as well, such as players indecisive about whether or not they like the game yet and spending around $45 in monthly subs before actually making up their mind and purchasing a lifetime sub.

[Starlord]

If you're going to use math in retaliation to my math, at least use realistic figures. No not every single person is going to do it. If you work in accounting or marketing or any executive branch for this sort of thing, you don't expect "everyone does it" and that's the problem with what you guys are saying. You are making poor assumptions. You have to take in data from what is happening and what has happened in the past. There are many variables to take into consideration and you guys are taking in one or two of them from the most unlikely of scenarios.

If every single player purchased a lifetime sub and every single player played for 10 years. Yeah, that would be bad.

This is not ever going to happen.

So you take into consideration all figures such as how long does the average player play for, how long will they stick around, how will players who do not purchase the lifetime sub option balance out, how much data will be expended in this amount of time, etc.

You forget some other basic things as well, such as players indecisive about whether or not they like the game yet and spending around $45 in monthly subs before actually making up their mind and purchasing a lifetime sub.

Lol, I know not everyone isn't going to do it. that's why I applied Legacy to all, I could do the same with everyone not being Legacy and it would change both figures of Lifetime and 10 yr but the distance apart would be the same.

I know everyone won't do the same thing :P. and alot of things will vary the numbers 1/4 of the Population could go lifetime, 1/4th 1 year, 1/4th 6 months, 1/4th monthly. Numbers would be hard to crunch without know what everyone is doing, and the only people that can determine that is SE.

What I posted was just merely an example, but everything can change when it comes down to Official figures. Really the math isn't my concern as to what they do, as long as the game is good, it's worth my 10 bucks a month =).